Contents tagged with Orchard
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Get your modules ready for Orchard 1.9
Orchard 1.9 is just around the corner (don’t ask me exactly when it will be out, instead go and help with the remaining high priority bugs), and if you own existing Orchard modules, now is a really good time to test them against the latest 1.x build. You should be mostly fine as the new version doesn’t introduce significant breaking changes (that we know of), but there is one thing that you may have to do nonetheless to build a compatible version of your code. Orchard 1.9 will bump up its .NET Framework dependency to 4.5.1. As a consequence, if your modules are compiled against an earlier version of the framework, and take dependencies on assemblies such as Orchard.Core or Orchard.Framework, which are now built on the updated framework, Visual Studio will refuse to build your module.
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Indexing PDF: once again with a big red nose
A commenter pointed me to an oddly-named library that I didn’t know about: PdfClown. This is a library that is built by the same author both for Java and .NET, and the .NET version actually looks pretty nice, with not too many Java-isms beyond the namespaces. The license is a nice LGPL 3, the author Stefano Chizzolini seems to be available for advice and consulting, and there’s quite a lot of blog posts and quality documentation and samples. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it?
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Indexing PDF: not so fast
In the last post, I showed how to index PDF using PdfSharp. Unfortunately, the library hasn’t been updated in years, nobody seems to have forked it, and it can’t read many recent files. That makes it unfortunately unsuitable for the task. Back to square 1.
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Indexing PDF in Orchard (and elsewhere.NET)
Indexing custom contents in Orchard is really easy: write a new handler derived from ContentHandler, then write an event handler for OnIndexing:
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MVP Award 2015
Happy new year to you all! For me, it’s starting quite nicely, as I received my first MVP award this morning, in recognition for my open source work, in particular on Orchard. It’s a great honor, and I want to thank Microsoft and all the people who made this happen. Thanks to all of you for reading me, as well, and for encouraging me over the years with your great feedback, and for some of you, with paid work ;)
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The mysteries of Orchard’s OEmbedPart, or how to integrate YouTube videos
The media library picker field does a fine job of integrating and rendering external videos such as YouTube videos. If you want to customize the rendering of the videos, however, you’ll have to deal with the OEmbedPart (obtainable from contentItem.As<OEmbedPart>()). OEmbed is a fairly relaxed protocol that is designed to enable the integration of bits of a site into another. It can deal with images, videos, or even arbitrary HTML. Because it is so vague in what it can do, it’s rather hard to give it a representation other than something completely dynamic, and that's exactly what OEmbedPart is doing. Its only structured property is Source, which is the URL of the original content, one of the only constants in the data. The rest is available through the part’s indexer, by name: part[“title”] for example.
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Dude, where are my images?
So you’ve copied some images somewhere in Orchard’s media folder, but they are not showing… What’s going on? If no media are showing on the site, chances are you’re missing a web.config file under the media folder. Put one in there. If the images are only missing from the Media section of the admin, then the problem is that you’ve created orphan media.
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Giving a few thanks
It has been my experience that the most rewarding communities to work with are open source communities. When you give your time and expertise freely, not everyone may recognize the value that you’re bringing to the table, but enough do. There is no better way for a developer to build a reputation, which eventually converts into more business, and better positions and wages.
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Tagging a fake Orchard content item
In my series of posts about building fake Orchard content items for testing purposes, here’s a short one that shows how to add tags to a fake content item. This one is interesting because it shows a basic case of relationship (between the item and its tags). The way tags have been implemented (it’s one of the oldest modules in Orchard, and one that should honestly be replaced with taxonomies in almost all cases), in order to add tags, we’ll need to create records for each:
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Adding fields to a fake Orchard content item
In previous posts, I’ve shown how to build fake content items, and how to use a fake content manager for testing Orchard modules. In this post, I’ll show how to add fields to a fake content item.